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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always wonder why the MERLD posts attract such vitriol.
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I suspect it's because it gets confused with autism a lot, and nobody wants the autism label if their child isn't really autistic.  [/quote]

Vitriol poster here.

Actually neuropsych dx'ed DS with PDD NOS.  But not on the obvious language problem alone.  He added in "stereotypical behaviors" and was visibly irritated when I called them tics.  It was all very confusing as those only started when DS was 7 following strep and were accompanied with OCD.  He actually had what NIH dx'ed a couple of years later as PANDAS.  We weren't really sure where to go after neuropsych but ended up at a psychiatrist who treats a lot of kids with autism and he said definitively DS did not have autism and dx'ed him with "tic-related OCD."

Whether it was autism or not, he would have needed the language therapy.  But OCD/Tics/PANDAS requires something completely different from autism, so diagnosis can matter.[/quote]

So, if your child is not MERLD,,  and something very different, why are you posting regarding a MERLD question?[/quote]

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